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PlIILTP LUTLKY SCLATER, ThOMAS AyRES, aud 



Dr. J. W. B, Gunning. 

 Philip Lutley ScLy^TER. (Plate XIII.) 



r>Y the death of Philip Lutley Sclater, D.Sc, F.E.S., the 

 world of science has sustained a severe loss^ which our 

 members, from his connexion with them, must feel even 

 more acutely than his innumerable friends both at lionie 

 aud abroad. Not only was he of Morld-wide reputation for 

 a long life's work^ but the A-arious posts which he held at 

 different periods entitled him to be considered of late tlie 

 head of that branch of learning to which he was specially 

 devoted, as Avell as a great power in zoology generally. He 

 always had the welfare of ornithology at heart, and was not 

 only ready but anxious to further any ])roject for its ad- 

 vancement^ while his kindness and consideration to all 

 beginners who applied to him were equally characteristic. 

 The names of Bowdler Sharpe, Garrod^ and W. A. Forbes 

 will at once occur to us in this connexion^ but these are a 

 mere drop in the ocean compared to the long list of all 

 who have owed their position or their reputation to his 

 support^ and those of them who are still alive will have 

 heard with the keenest regret of his removal from our 

 midst. It may, perhaps, be permitted to the present writer 

 here to strike a personal note by expressing his own feeling 

 of gratitude for all Dr. Sclater's kindness towards him, both 

 in early life and while joint-editor with him of ' The Ibis,^ 

 and to add his tribute to the memory of a great ornithologist 

 and a warm and consistent friend. As an original member 

 of our Union, as editor of our Journal, and as chairman of 

 the British Ornithologists' Club Dr. Sclater was connected 

 with all of us by the closest of ties, and thus this notice 

 must be considered as an expression of the greatest regret 

 and at the same time a token of the greatest esteem ijut 

 forward in the name of every member of the B.O.U. 



The subject of our notice was born, on the 4th of November 



